gettare i soldi dalla finestra

Today’s Parola del Giorno is the idiomatic expression, gettare i soldi dalla finestra, which means to throw money out the window – in other words, to waste money. In Italian, this expression is called a modo di dire or an idiomatic expression. Try to incorporate them into your speaking whenever you can! See the expression used below in its context:

When we went the other evening to eat at the restaurant nearby, I said to my friends we had thrown money out the window. We might as well have spent our money eating a sandwich on the street instead of spending it in that restaurant that wasn’t worth a single cent of our money.